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    In Pictures: Forty years since the Iran-Iraq war began

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    In Pictures: Forty years since the Iran-Iraq war began

    One of the deadliest wars ever, it was rooted in a border dispute and lasted 8 years


    Published:  September 21, 2020 14:07 AFP and Compiled by Devadasan K P, Picture Editor

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    Iraqi troops atop Soviet-made tanks try to cross the Karun river, northeast of Khorramshahr, in Iraq, during the Iran-Iraq war, while smoke billows in the background from a the burning Abadan pipeline. On September 22, 1980, Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein sent troops into neighbouring Iran, starting an 8 year war in which hundreds of thousands were killed. One of the deadliest wars in the Middle East, it was rooted in a border dispute between the two oil producing nations. Image Credit: AFP
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    An Iraqi tank trapped in flood waters and mud just outside the Iranian town of Ahvaz, during the Iran-Iraq war. Image Credit: AFP
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    Photo taken on March 18, 1985, shows blindfolded Iranian prisoners of war are being shown to reporters as they stand by a group of Iraqi soldiers in a makeshift camp near the al-Howeizah swamps, north of Basra after a foiled offensive launched by Iranian troops. Image Credit: AFP
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    Picture dated March 20, 1988, shows the bodies of a Kurdish father and his baby in his arms in Halabja in northeastern Iraq, after they were killed in an Iraqi chemical attack on the city. Image Credit: AFP
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    An Iranian mother hugs her son in the capital Tehran on August 1, 1989 following his release from an Iraqi prisoners camp, after the 1980-1988 war between the neighbouring countries. Image Credit: AFP
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    Photo taken on June 20, 1988, shows 14-year-old Iranian prisoners of war under guard on the Iraq-Iran border during the war between the two countries, among some reported 1500 taken during the Iraqi May offensive on the Iranian town of Mehran. Image Credit: AFP
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    An US Navy minesweeping helicopter leads the way for the 12th US reflagged Kuwaiti tanker convoy, as two tankers, Gass Prince and Ocean City, are being escorted by four US war ships (Haws, Ford, Raleigh and Standley) and the US helicopter carrier Guadacanal, heading out of the Gulf three days after US ships bombed two Iranian oil platforms, amid the Tanker War on October 22, 1987. Image Credit: AFP
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    Picture from January 22, 1987, shows an Iranian soldier guards some Iraqi prisoners of war at a camp in Ahvaz, some 100Km north of Abadan, who were captured in the two-week-old Kerbala-5 offensive. Image Credit: AFP
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    Firefighting vessels extinguish flames on the Singapore-flagged 85-thousand-ton tanker Norman Atlantic it was attacked by an Iranian warship in Omani territorial waters as it approached the Strait of Hormuz in December 6, 1987. Image Credit: AFP
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    A picture shows a partial view of a damaged mosque's minaret in Iraq's southern region of al-Faw on September 17, 2020, the scene of some of the bloodiest fighting during the war. Image Credit: AFP
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    A column of smoke billows from the burning Iranian city of Abadan, during the Iran-Iraq war on October 24, 1980. Image Credit: AFP
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    Some of 1500 Iranian war prisoners captured during the Iraq-Iran as they wait for food at Ramadi camp in western Iraq on April 2, 1985. Image Credit: AFP
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    File photo taken on August 20, 1988, Iraqis flash victory signs in the capital Baghdad as they celebrate a ceasefire between Iraq and Iran, at war since 1980. Image Credit: AFP
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    A picture shows a partial view of the al-Rahman mosque, built in 1989 after the conclusion of the Iran-Iraq war, in the southern region of al-Faw the scene of some of the bloodiest fighting in the 1980-1988 conflict. Image Credit: AFP
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    Iraqi soldiers celebrate their victory over Iran in the strategic Faw peninsula of southeastern Iraq that was partly occupied by Iranian forces in February 1986. Image Credit: AFP
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    A handout photo released by the Iranian official news agency IRNA on March 16, 1988, shows the bodies of Kurdish adults and children killed by an Iraqi chemical attack on the Kurdish city of Halabja in northeastern Iraq. While the exact number of those killed in the war is not known, at least 650,000 died, roughly two-thirds of them Iranians, according to French historian Pierre Razoux. Image Credit: AFP
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    An Iraqi soldier flashes a victory sign as his comrades look on, in a trench dug near Al-Howeizah swamps, north of Basra city in southern Iraq on March 18, 1985.. Image Credit: AFP
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    An Iranian fighter operates anti-aircraft artillery as another climbs a captured armoured personnel carrier to use it against Iraqi troops in Faw during the Iran-Irak war in 1986. Image Credit: AFP
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    Iraqi troops flash victory signs as they move past a destroyed Soviet-made tank on their way to the front line during the battle for the city of al-Howeizah, north of Basra on March 18, 1985. Image Credit: AFP
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    Iraqi soldiers wave near a tank after the destruction of Iranian positions in the strategic Faw peninsula of southeastern Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war. Image Credit: AFP

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